Unfamiliar Forms of Light

Beccy Palmer was born and raised in London s East End. She is immensely proud of her working-class Eastern European Jewish and Irish Catholic heritage. She has three wonderful children and four amazing grandchildren. She feels very lucky to have such a loving and supportive extended family and friends. Throughout her career, Beccy has dedicated herself to developing programs that empower young people, encouraging them to engage with those who make decisions that affect their lives. She feels privileged to have been there on that journey with them. Having survived life-threatening brain cancer and intensive treatment, she felt a deep urgency to write about the stories she heard and read about over decades. These were accounts of real and harrowing experiences of those she never knew, and painful memories told by her family who escaped or survived the horrors of the Holocaust. Beccy is a passionate campaigner against discrimination, hate, fascism and wars. She envisions a more united and just world, where people s lives are valued above the accumulation of profit and where the pursuit of power and control of borders and land does not overshadow the lives of human beings.